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...those who have even dubbed him the arch plotter of the World War.† There is no question that it was he, as Premier (1922-24), who sent French troops to occupy the Ruhr. Yet last week M. Poincare, once again created Premier (TIME, Aug. 2), began to clip and prune the French Army, in the interest of national economy to save the franc...
...Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps and barges at an eight-knot clip. His guests scrutinized the Baden-Baden's two whirling towers of iron, 65 feet high and ten feet through, and tried to realize that, according to the Magnus principle, the quartering wind that struck the cylindrical metal sails created suction on their surfaces, the suction being greatest...
Dillon Again. To every business persisting in the hands of its founder's descendants comes at one time or another the temptation to sell out. Such descendants all too often are inept in business affairs, fain would clip coupons and shy at "trade." To one such group, the scions of Samuel S. White, founder in 1844 of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. (now the world's largest concern of its field), and to the company's shareholding employes, came Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co. Mr. Dillon offered to buy them out, just as he offered...
...Burns is left out of the reckoning, Sullivan becomes the big stick of the Harvard diamond men. Besides hitting at a clip of .380, the Crimson short stop is also the leader in other departments of the nine's offense. He has made the most hits eight; he has scored the most runs, nine; he leads the base-stealers with three thefts to his credit: and he is tied with Captain Todd and Zarakov for the most three-base hits and home-runs, respectively...
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